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104 I cannot therefore conclude this address without congratulating the younger members of the College, on having chosen a profession which affords them such valuable opportunities to extend their knowledge, and to establish their virtue—To extend their knowledge, for it opens on every path of philosophical. enquiry—To establish their virtue, for the love of truth is its supreme law, and good-will to man its perpetual object. And f think it may be proper, as no minor consideration for parents and the guardians of youth, at a period like this, when our free and exalted country has been scarcely more honourably adorned, by zealous and merciful. endeavours to disseminate the blessings of Christianity, than shamefully

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